The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-04
RE HORRORS OF LEPRosv.
~he Terror of Physician Who
Thought lie Had Contracted the
Decentralization ola
Young Woman.

Young Woman.
Or. Frederick 4. Miner, prominent
whvsician of Honolulu, Hawaii, is
spending few days in New York,
winding up the first visit he has made
Co his naive country in twenty years.
He left Vermont when he was little
more than boy, Travelled by stages and
on foot across the plains to California,
where he mined gold for a living and
studied medicine for a pastimc When
he discovered there was very little
profit in the former aud a chance for
considerable in the latter, he devoted
himself entirely to medicine, and was
at one time considered the most pro-
missing young doctor in San Francisco
Then he went to Honolulu on visit.
and was so much impressed with the
beauty and fertility of the country that
he stayed there, and has since become
leading citizen, high in favor OF the
king, and II man of means His wife
journoyed from Termont clear around
abe Horn in II sailing vessel to be mar
ried to him.
Hawaii is one of the most beautiful
and delightful spots in the world,
said the doctor the other dag TO party
of fr ends who had given him a dinner,
land it is only a question of time when
it will become very rich and profit
able dependent of some country, The
native dynasty can not last much long
on. At present it is little more than II
name. The king is sunk in idleness
and luxury. and foreign influence
struggle for the control Of things. The
country really should be annexed to the
Wnited States; it is most nearly allied
80 you by situation, trade and inclina-
Son. But no doubt you will let Eng
band or France steal march upon you
and take it away before your face.
Then one of them will reap the profits
OF the enormous trade in sugar, fruits.
and vegetables which the unsurpassed
fertility of the island is building up year
by year, and which naturally should be
principally yours. The native popula-
sion of Hawaii is rapidly passing away.
In very few years. comparatively,
it will be practically extinct What
carries or the peoplcP Leprosy, for
Ihe most part, and then some such
mysterious incompatbility of races as
made the North Amer can Indians melt
away before the Europeans The
Islanders were n fine race originally,
but the vices they have learned from
She white men have worked their ruin
The ravages of lcprosy in Hawaii
have not been overdrawn. | don't
know how they could be even adequate
Ay described 10 one who had never wit
nessed them. The terrible disease
seems to be poison in the blood that
will eventually run through and wipe
out the entire native race. The gov
crpment does what it can in its feeble
way to keep the disease from spread
Ing. All authenticated eases are sola-
ecd on an island in the harbor Physl-
clans hired at the public cost watch for
asc disease and study its symptoms.
But it still increases steadily among the
natives. The foreigners catch it some
Simes. II is n great mistake, however,
% suppose, as most people do, that the
disease is contagious. 1t can be com
municated from one person TO another
oniy bv contact and actual transmits
sion of virus, as by a wound or sore.
4 have treated thousands OF lopcrs.
been with them when they died, visited
One leper hospital on the island. and ate
Che food prepared for leper palates by
Ieper hands. have handled living and
dead lepers with IMMUNITY, and so have
hundreds Of other Caucasians. On the
other hand, hundreds OF white men
have been infected by tho disease in q
way that have named and have died
ahe most horrible and loathsomc Of
leaths
4 shall never forget have thc
strongest cause to remembcr-an en-
pericnce | once had that put all The
gray hairs into my bead and the crow s.
feet into my face as you can discover.
was called one day to attend veal
siy patient suffering from leprosy. WHO
had by reason of his wealth escaped
scing sent to the island with the other
victims. The disease had reached 4